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AIM Meets Social Network Theory

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the diagram-fever dept.

dan moore writes "A student at Caltech has created a website (BuddyZoo.com) that tracks cliques within groups of peoples' buddylists. It also measures buddy popularity and allows you to do a six-degrees type search for other screen names. An interesting approach to social network theory."

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  1. Buddy collecting by Negatyfus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sheez, some people collect IM buddies as a sport. You'd think someone has no real friends in life with 373 buddies in his contact list.

  2. ironic by scubacuda · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I find it ironic that some of the same people who'd normally have a shit fit over their personal information being centralized (TIA, etc.) actually *volunteer* to disclose their buddy lists (not to mention make it *accessible* to the general public)...